This study investigated the impact of individual differences like language proficiency, gender and age on the Iranian EFL learners interlanguage pragmatics in institutional discourse especially, their capacity to recognize and to rate pragmatic and grammatical infelicities in speech act situations of request and apology.  To this end, one hundred and eighty-seven EFL university students at thre...

This study was an attempt to examine the effect of using comic strips on improving grammar recognition and performance among Iranian young EFL learners. To this end, one experimental and one control groups were formed, each having 45 preintermediate participants chosen via convenience sampling. The researcher-made pretests of grammar and speaking assured the researchers that the participants di...

The article considers the category of verb tense in Russian, Kazakh languages from point view formation linguistic competence, since type-time correlation is one central sections morphology, and forms correct speech competence.  Despite numerous diverse studies field aspect lexical expression action time, which are issues aspectology, none points expressed still generally accepted. differe...

Abstract The aim of this study is to probe for the discursive construction shared beliefs about capital punishment. Drawing upon a specialized corpus execution news, explores representational practices, including social actor naming, action description, and incorporation voices, compares respective lexico-grammatical choices that are orchestrated reconstruct events executions in Thailand from 1...

Recommendations on Preparing for the Part “Writing” of Unified State Exam in English (Case Study Irkutsk Region) Results. The study shows that most graduates 2022 successfully completed basic level task new format (84.2% - “Communicative task” criterion, 92.8% “Organization text” criterion). lexico-grammatical aspect text was only one presented difficulties (46.3%). participants with low or med...

The present study explored the intensity level of authorial voice in relation to the quality of argumentative writing. 42 undergraduate learners of English as a foreign language (36 girls and 6 boys) spent 45 minutes to individually complete in-class position-taking writing tasks for three weeks. Their overall academic writing quality scores assigned based on portfolio assessment were studied i...

Lifelong competence development is a fundamental premise for an information society, as well as major aim and challenge. Facing the variety of learning programs and qualification measures, problems emerge in supporting lifelong learning. Efficient competence development necessitates providing learners with learning opportunities which are appropriate for their current knowledge and for their in...

This study determined if a language-based approach using literary texts in teaching English will improve the grammatical competence of Grade 9 students verbals. To generate data on level proficiency and competence, pretest post-test were used to assess learning outcome subjects study. Based analysis data, results revealed that after implementation approach, respondents gerund infinitive is appr...